Pathogens
Cutibacterium

Cutibacterium

Precautions

Routine Practices

Susceptibilities

General Information

Small gram positive bacilli, short chains or clumps.

Commonly found on skin, conjunctiva, external ear, oropharynx, female genital tract.

When isolated from blood culture, usually a skin contaminant.

Acne - C. acnes stimulates an inflammatory response in sebaceous follicles.

Topical treatment with benzoyl peroxide or topical antibiotics is generally effective for acne.

Hardware/foreign body infections:

  • Prosthetic joint infections
  • Prosthetic valve endocarditis
  • Infection of pacemaker/ICD
  • CNS device (i.e. VP shunt) - nosocomial meningitis

Formerly Propionibacterium.